Emily Dickinson Quotes
If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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I like the sudden shock of non-sequitur color. Color, in fact, is my weakness.
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Subsidies are hugely important; they represent America's de facto energy policy.
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If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.
